Adaptive Level 5: Wide trail or fire road. Steepness and off-camber sections can be difficult. Terrain may have loose sections with minimal hardpack. Obstacles likely, but more than one line often possible.

I like this system. I am just getting back into cycling. I was injured in Afghanistan, and can no longer ride much on a diamond frame bike. I am riding a Bacchetta Giro 20 and am using it on single track as well as road. I am in the treasure valley of Idaho, and am looking for trails around boise I can ride with my wife. She likes the hard stuff and climbing, so I am trying harder stuff for her, and she is going on easier stuff for me. This Rating system seems like a good understandable system that I can convert for my type of riding. I would love to see this on out MTB trails around here. Thank you for what you are doing. I may be converting to a tadpole soon via the Va.

The Red Cliffs review Pat wrote is in the Boise foothills.
HG out of Ketchum ID. has three off-road program trikes. Two handcycles and one leg powered bike from ReActive Adaptations.
Last year we were riding Saturday mornings. If you are interested, let me know and I can get you contact information.
We can always fit in new riders!

Jet, I hope to make it to Ketchum this late spring or summer. By then I should have my Trike. I am hoping to get the Catrike road set up with 26″ rear and 24″ front tires. Does this sound like a tadpole that will work on the adaptive trails? I was also thinking maybe I should get a Schlumph mountain drive, any thoughts?

Hi Bruce, We still have a lot of snow on our trails. May be a few weeks yet.
The Tadpole will probably work fine on some of the milder trails.
I’m sure you can borrow Higher Ground of Sun Valley’s ReActive Adaptations Stinger program bike for a day.http://www.reactiveadaptations.com/stinger-offroad-recumbent-bicycle/
A Schlumph might not hurt especially if you only have large chain rings. Let me know if you want a biking partner.

FYI…
There is a new $1.4M trail building project work to connect over 500 miles of trails in West Virginia, building 20 miles of new trail at the Wolf Creek site in Fayetteville, WV, and they’re seeking our input for making it ORHC friendly.

I had a two hour meeting earlier this week with project heads and trail builders to begin educating them about different ORHC capabilities and common barriers ORHC riders often face. I directed them to the Adaptive Trails website, got them familiar with the AT Rating system (https://adaptivetrails.com/ratings) and got the ball rolling.

Any input and guidance ORHC riders, trail designers, etc would like to offer would be greatly appreciated.